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Invisible No More, the Cervix
How many people have seen their cervix? Obscured from view and stigmatized socially, the cervix is critical to women’s, transgender-men’s, and non-binary folks’ health — and potential reproductive...
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Pardon the Irruption: Winged Northern Visitors Massed for Tasty NC Mast
One morning in November, during a visit to my parents’ house in Richmond, Virginia, I woke up to a text from my mom. “Evening Grosbeaks at the river. Want to go?” Obviously I wanted to go. I’d heard...
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Duke Researcher Busts Metabolism Myths in New Book
Herman Pontzer explains where our calories really go, and what studying humanity’s past can teach us about staying healthy today. Photo by Elena Georgiou, My City /EEA Duke professor Herman Pontzer...
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Learning Something Surprising About “SuperLearners”
The discovery of a signaling pathway in the brain that could make mice into ‘superlearners’ understandably touched off a lot of excitement a few years back. But new work led by Duke neurologist and...
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Two Ways to Weird: How Whale Noses Moved to the Top of Their Head
A blue whale skeleton suspended in London’s Natural History Museum Odd skulls are nothing new to V. Louise Roth, a professor in the Department of Biology. Much of her research centers on how animals’...
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Introducing: The Duke Space Initiative
NASA Engineers, medical students, ecologists, political scientists, ethicists, policymakers — come one, come all to the Duke Space Initiative (DSI), “the interdisciplinary home for all things space at...
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New Blogger Skylar Hughes: ‘Up for the Challenge’
When I was a young girl, My mother once explained to me the importance of a first impression. “You can only make it once, after all,” she’d say. Here I am writing this introduction for you guys, and...
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New Blogger Sophie Cox: Keep Asking Questions
Typing with one hand, especially my left hand, is not easy, but my right hand is currently occupied by freeze-dried mealworms and, momentarily, by a chittering wild bird. My eagle-eyed supervisor is a...
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New Blogger Camila Cordero: Renaissance First-Year
My name is Camila Cordero, and for those who know Spanish: yes, my last name does mean lamb. I’m a Hispanic female, born and raised in Miami, Florida. Living in Miami, one can think of many...
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The Duke Dentist and her Research: Saving Children’s Teeth, One Tooth at a Time
Walking into our small meeting room with green scrubs and a white lab coat on, our special guest set her bag down in the front and stated “I fixed 60 teeth today and haven’t sat down since this...
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How To Hold a Bee and Not Get Stung
Pictured from left to right are Lindsey Weyant, Andrew McCallum, and Will Marcus. On Saturday, September 25, the Wild Ones club hosted an insect-themed outing with Fred Nijhout, an entomology...
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In the World Capital of Vanilla Production, Nearly Three out of Four Farmers...
A new study investigates why and what they can do about it Madagascar, famous for its lemurs, is home to almost 26 million people. Despite the cultural and natural riches, Madagascar is one of the...
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In Drawers of Old Bones, New Clues to the Genomes of Lost Giants
DNA extracted from a 1,475-year-old jawbone reveals genetic blueprint for one of the largest lemurs ever. By teasing trace amounts of DNA from this partially fossilized jawbone, nearly 1,500 years...
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Leadership As ‘Groundskeeping,’ Not ‘Gatekeeping,’ and Other “Lessons From...
Dr. Beronda Montgomery, author of Lessons from Plants, recently spoke at Duke University. (Photos: Marie Claire Chelini, Biology Dept.) Plants do not passively exist, leaving their survival to the...
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The Life of a Biology Ph.D. Student, Clara Howell
Clara Howell and I meet to chat on a lovely October afternoon under the trees of the Bryan Center Plaza. In my final Fall at Duke as an undergraduate, I am happy to connect with Clara, a third-year...
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Duke has 38 of the World’s Most Highly-Cited Scientists
Peak achievement in the sciences isn’t measured by stopwatches or goals scored, it goes by citations – the number of times other scientists have referenced your findings in their own academic papers....
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Nobel Laureate Dr. Jennifer Doudna and Groundbreaking Applications of CRISPR
In 2011, Dr. Jennifer Doudna began studying an enzyme called Cas9. Little did she know, in 2020 she would go on to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with Emmanuelle Charpentier for discovering...
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Junior Alec Morlote Pursues a Love for Biology Via Fruit Flies
As Alec Morlote emphasizes, he’s a Biology major because “I’m really interested in it. I’d definitely be a Biology major whether I was pre-med or not.” Morlote, a Trinity junior from northern New...
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LowCostomy: the Low-Cost Colostomy Bag for Africa
It’s common for a Pratt engineering student like me to be surrounded by incredible individuals who work hard on their revolutionary projects. I am always in awe when I speak to my peers about their...
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A Conversation with Emily Levy, Soon-to-Be Biology PhD
Emily Levy studies how the physical and social environments that baboons experience affect their physiology and life outcomes. The Massachusetts native, who works under advisor Susan Alberts (PhD), is...
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